“My name is Jane Mount, and I started Ideal Bookshelf in 2008. I believe books make us better, allowing us to visit other people's lives and understand them. And books connect us, to characters, to authors, and, most importantly, to each other.
“I started painting my books, and then my friends’ books just as they lay on their shelves, but I soon realized it was much more interesting to ask them what books they loved, which books made them who they are today.
“That’s when I started Ideal Bookshelf, and began doing custom pieces for people, painting portraits of them from the inside instead of the outside. I find it endlessly fascinating to see what books people pick, and while painting or making a print I think all about what that person might be like, based on their choices.”
BOOKS INCLUDED:
Black Beauty - Sewell
The Little Prince - Saint-Exupery
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
Half Magic - Eager
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Rowling
Little Women - Alcott
Little House on the Prairie - Wilder
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - Konigsburg
Alice in Wonderland - Carroll
The House with a Clock in Its Walls - Bellairs
Matilda - Dahl
The Secret Garden - Burnett
The Giver - Lowry
A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle
Pippi Longstocking - Lindgren
The Wizard of Oz - Baum
Charlotte's Web - White Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
Island of the Blue Dolphins - O'Dell
The Phantom Tollbooth - Juster
Heidi - Spyri The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Lewis
